Situation:
Pilot and copilot are patrolling over Helmand, Afghanistan at 15,000ft. The copilot is monitoring the look-down camera picture.
Dialog:
C: There is a person next to a hut at 2 o’clock.
P: Okay, about time something happens. Let’s start with the key questions. Does that person wear civilian clothes?
C: That seems to be the case.
P: Is that person in civil clothes a male person?
C: Well, looks male to me.
P: Is that male person in civil clothes between 7 and 70 years old?
C: That could very well be so.
P: Ok, that’s a Talib. Release the bombs now, now, NOW.
One of the raids by NATO hit houses in the Girishk district of Helmand province on Thursday evening, killing up to 50 civilians, a group of some 20 residents reported to journalists in Kandahar, the main city in the south.
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"We have no reports of any such incidents in Girishk yesterday at all. There have been no people taken to the hospital … in relation to anything around Girishk," said [a spokesman for British forces in Helmand,] Lieutenant-Colonel Charlie Mayo."Because the Taliban don’t wear uniforms like us, as soon as they are killed, they are called civilians, the key is are they male or female and if they are male, what age are they?"
Dozens of Afghan civilians die in air raids: residents